Dr Gilles Dorronsoro (Nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, previously professor of political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes), Arthur Quesnay (PhD candidate in the sectarian conflict in Iraq in Political science at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Adam Baczko (PhD candidate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, Paris) and Research Fellow at the Noria South Asia Program)

22 February 2016 - 5:00pm

Auditorium, Investcorp Building

Co-hosted by Maison française d'Oxford and the Middle East Centre: Adam Baczko is a Junior Research Fellow at the ERC-funded CivilWars program, Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a Phd candidate in... Read more

Roger Hardy (former Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst with the BBC World Service)

17 November 2015 - 5:00pm

Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre

The BBC's worldwide authority is based on its claim to be balanced and impartial -- and to speak truth to power. Roger Hardy -- who was for twenty-four years a Middle East and Islamic affairs analyst... Read more

Join Fadi Zaghmout and translator Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp for a frank discussion of LGBT and women’s rights, as they present the new English translation of The Bride of Amman , a fast-paced novel... Read more

David Sims (author of "Egypt's Desert Dreams: Development or Disaster")

3 November 2015 - 5:00pm

Lecture Theatre, Investcorp Building, Middle East Centre

In Egypt, informal (illegal) development now produces housing for the great majority of urban inhabitants, and in Tunisia it is approaching a majority. These two countries – the only Arab Spring... Read more

Cengiz Çandar is a journalist. He is currently the senior columnist of daily Radikal in Turkey and a columnist of Al Monitor. After completing his studies in political science, he had a brief career... Read more

Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli is a post-doctoral researcher from Sapir College, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. Her research is focused on modern Morocco. Her MA thesis dealt with "The... Read more

Guy Laron is a Lecturer in the International Relations Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and visiting fellow at St. Antony’s College (2014-2015). Previously he had been a visiting scholar at... Read more